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by clanky 166 days ago
If it's about the War on Terror and related crimes, why have they also (since their inception) gathered such vast troves of data and profiles on U.S. citizens?
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War on Terror means watching all of the brown people, many of whom are citizens
I am talking about at the founding. Their mission has obviously shifted from then.
Hasn't Palantir been gathering and storing data on U.S. citizens since the earliest days of the company?